Kieran Howie

Cattle Farmer, South coastal WA.

[Kieran Howie @Howiefarming]

@JamieNicolaou @pbl1972 Weight will pay again this year 😉

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@freshy1973 That’s been done as everything is sire traced in our commercials so problem bulls progeny is out the gate. More highlighting the variables in ebvs

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@freshy1973 Any growth on back toes, any crossing of claw etc is culled.
I have L tags being culled for age this year. Still 48 of them from 70 heifers so I wouldn’t say maternal is something we’ve struggled with. But our feet have slipped in younger age groups dramatically.

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@freshy1973 That’s fair but extremely environmental. In our examples I’ve had 10% of breed ebvs unable to walk at 3-4 years of ages.

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@freshy1973 So you think say for example Foot ebvs/epds are accurate?

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@freshy1973 Interesting I feel like a lot of producers would agree with their statements around needing solid data to give quantitative genetics a solid background. I can 100% say it our part of the world a lot of the time, the data doesn’t match the animal you see.

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@KerinPollMerino Great observations re handling during heifer AI. One of those extra % things you can do to boost results in my mind.

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Commercials hit very good FTAI results this season in challenging conditions. 64% to AI in 120 heifers. Another 22% to backup bulls.

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@CrendonIrrig Have Allflex large female ones in 10 year old cows still easily read. Generally have the Letter small on top, medium for the numbers and then property/farm name small on bottom.

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@burgess_ag @JamieNicolaou You don’t need to take notes when your already the king of silage @JamieNicolaou

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@JamieNicolaou @hanks_dale 27 mate. Very handy although I would have liked to fill the dams and water table to the top going into spring

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@JamieNicolaou @hanks_dale Would take 74ml here thanks!

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@BradMclean90 250kg of NKP and it will look the same

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@originalstinger @ksmith_agro @ColBowey Don’t think PH is the problem sting, more meaning how can I stop this from seeding down without hurting clover with 24D. Only seen capeweed this season due to 3-4 false breaks

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Any agros out there that can explain the theory of spray/graze capeweed with a high calcium folia? Wanting to clean up a rye/clover paddock which is getting overrun. Explain it me like I’m 5 thanks!
@originalstinger @ksmith_agro @ColBowey

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@BradMclean90 @originalstinger @ksmith_agro @ColBowey 🤣 knew I could count on you for unhelpful Chem advice!

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@jcressw3 @freshy1973 @meatlivestock @SheepProducers @dorpersheepaus @DMiNguni is your contact 👍

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@darryn_browne @GusWhyte Every 8-10m is my preference. Have done 6m with no droppers before but prefer a dropper in between. If your not worried about a few extra posts go 8m and it comes up smicko!

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@KerinPollMerino Any chance of letting us in on sires in use for your AI Nigel? Do you look for proven sires from a commercial sense. Heard you speak in recent podcast about using data driven sires, just wondering what are a few that have excited you.